ThePirateBay convicted

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what a weird decision …

So indeed a court in Sweden found the guys from The Pirate Bay guilty for “support for copyright-infringement” and other absurd things.

Besides the court’s obvious ignorance of how search engines work and what they do, this is a slap into the face for a whole generation of young people.

How many people of the – I don’t know – “below 30 generation” haven’t used The Pirate bay at least once? Even I myself, soon hitting the 40 barrier, use it regularly, like I use google.

This entire trial is about the criminalization of an entire generation, about how “bad” todays young people are compared to previous generations. The good thing though is that dinosaurs have died off as well, so there is still hope.

Previous “young generations” had their revolutions about free love and against the stark and stiff societies they lived in, so this revolution is about digital freedom.